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...Duke is also an ambitious politician who is a candidate for Governor of Louisiana, a state with a large black vote. At the rally at a downtown convention center he delivered a typically bombastic Save Our Nation spiel, including his usual appeal to overhaul welfare and do away with quotas and set-aside programs for minority businessmen. The rally drew a meager audience of 30 people and was pitiful as a fund raiser. Duke, however, profited handsomely: he got a chance to soften his racist image without saying anything...
...something I discovered by accident that I'd like to do. I've always been kind of a ham when it comes to a microphone," Anthony says of his affinity for direct sales. People often ask him if his spiel is pre-scripted. Surprisingly, Anthony says...
...meeting.) Last year Cineplex Odeon backed out as co-sponsor. And still Stein pursued his vision, like the Jaws shark searching for fresh kill. In the weeks before the opening, he walked dozens of journalists through the unfinished attractions. So beguiling was Stein's spiel that some reporters obligingly described the experience as if they had been on the completed rides and the park was ready to roll...
...Well-known works are found slightly more often, but about 80 percent of stolen art is never recovered," said Robert Spiel, a private security consultant in Chicago and former FBI agent specializing in art theft...
...When you come down to it, the odds are against you," Spiel said...